Cape man used vacant Lehigh home for receiving pot packages

A Cape Coral man was busted for picking up packages of marijuana from a home where he doesn't even live.

Lee County deputies arrested Roger Alberto Suarez for the elaborate plan which included a vacant Lehigh acres home miles from where he lives.

A Southwest Florida realty company listed the vacant home on River Trent Court last month.

Ever since it’s been on the market, investigators noticed packages with marijuana being sent to it and the same mysterious man coming to pick them up.

"I think that's kind of really stupid because it's like, kind of obvious," said Brianna Reardon, a neighbor to the property.

Obvious is exactly the opposite of what Suarez thought he was being when he pulled up to the vacant Lehigh address and walked to the front door to pick up packages coming from California.

"That just seems a little crazy to me; you wouldn't think that was happening right here, and I actually had absolutely no clue that that was going on," said another neighbor, Lacey Schmick.

Families living across from the home can't believe drug deliveries and surveillance were happening for the last month.

"That kind of freaks me out. One, that it's just sitting there, and two that he is coming in here with my kids in here and getting that also," Schmick said.

Deputies intercepted the most recent package, made sure it was delivered and then watched Suarez come and pick it up.

"That's ridiculous. You come all the way into Lehigh Acres, and you're in the Cape, like you really had to know something about this house and the type of people and stuff, and that's just really cruel to us," said Anaya Latham.

"It's really wrong, obviously," Reardon said.

Deputies believe all of the packages Suarez picked up add up to dozens of pounds of marijuana.

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